No Charges Filed in Banko Brown Walgreens Shooting, DA Releases Surveillance Video.

The District Attorney of San Francisco has decided not to prosecute a security guard who shot and killed a suspected shoplifter at a Walgreens store in April. The guard, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, claimed self-defense in the violent encounter that began over Banko Brown’s suspected shoplifting. Surveillance footage shows Brown making a slight movement towards the guard before being shot. The incident stoked protests and roiled an already tense debate about criminal justice and the lengths to which merchants should go to quell retail theft.